PM Modi will inaugurate the ₹80,000 crore Pachpadra Refinery on April 21 in Balotra district, Rajasthan. It's total refining Capacity is 1,80,000 bpd

The project is India’s first integrated petrochemical complex of its kind and is expected to boost industrial growth in the Marwar region.

#Infra #Energy

EAM Dr S Jaishankar to travel to UAE from 11-12 April

#ForeignAffairs

🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to Axios that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire agreement with Iran.

Additional 150 CAPFs Companies to be deployed in Bengal raising the number to 2,550 #Policy

🇦🇪⚡ Oil installations in Al-Fujairah, UAE struck by Iran earlier today

🇮🇷🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱 “We are preparing a harsh response to the crimes of the Zionist entity Israel in Lebanon.” - Commander of IRGC Aerospace Force Majid Mousavi

The Indian #ports are becoming the world's fastest ports now.

Were sluggish a decade ago.

🇮🇷⚡ Airstrikes in Capital Tehran & Karaj,Iran. ADS Active

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 "The United States has begun violating the ceasefire and attacking the Iranian capital, Tehran." - Mehr News, Iranian state media.

Ceasefire Collapsed ?

🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧- Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu:

The ceasefire does not include Lebanon

We don't see Pakistan as a credible player. I think that the United States has decided to use the services of the facilitation of Pakistan for their own reasons

– Israel Ambassador to India

#Geopolitics

Strait of Hormuz has been closed again.

Only 2 oil tankers passed through the strait unharmed.

The ceasefire is practically dead already.

US President Donald Trump is back with Greenland Threats

#InternationalNews

India to roll out ~20 maritime #reforms in first 90 days of FY27; includes ₹25,000 crore Maritime Development Fund. Indian ships carry <5% of EXIM cargo, with ~$75 bn annual freight outflow. Coastal shipping share targeted to rise from 6% to 12% by 2047.

India CEA to include data centre demand in power plans as capacity may rise from ~1.2 GW in 2025 to ~10 GW by 2030. Electricity use projected at 40–45 TWh vs 10–15 TWh in 2024. Govt targets $200 bn data centre/AI investment by 2030; clusters may add ~2–3 GW base load per state. #Energy #Tech #Infra

China got hacked by a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data.

The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups. #Cyberwarfare

Japan's Daikin Industries is setting up its first R&D centre outside Japan in India . The ₹1,000 crore hub will be focused on chillers and AC systems for data centres, residential, and commercial use. The centre, likely near its existing Neemrana plant, will hire 500 engineers from top Indian institutions.

Beyond R&D, Daikin is also building a compressor plant, setting up a local refrigerant production entity, and investing ₹200 crore to locally manufacture data centre chillers #MakeInIndia

Mumbai's operational metro network (post-April 7 rollout) will extend to 90km. #Infra

Google kicks off its $15 billion data centre hub near Visakhapatnam on April 28 with three campuses, 601 acres allocated, Adani Infra as implementation partner, three SPVs formed, submarine cables and metro fibre infrastructure planned, and a 1 GW combined capacity expected to be commissioned by July 2028. When operational, the Vizag cluster is expected to be Asia's largest data centre hub. #Tech #Infra #IT

West Asia Crisis is promoting multiple fronts in India's venture into harnessing energy from different sources. This is one such thing.

India's Coal Gasification Plan.

Only JSPL currently has coal gasification commercial in India which is all for captive consumption.

Govt incentive scheme with a total outlay of ₹8,500 crore.
Adani alone to deploy 84000 Cr for Coal Gasification.

#energy

India's premier #nuclear research body BARC was allocated ₹1,100 crore for R&D in 2025-26 and spent just 55% of it by December 2025. Establishment costs, though were nearly three times higher at ₹3,135 crore. This pattern repeats across every institution related to science and #research.